A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

However, it was a bit of a different story for the interface that hooks up the CD drive to your computer, as [Tech Tangents] found out when he managed to get his hands on a first-generation CM100 ...

Although it's unlikely to happen with most discs in most drives, there have been occasional reports of discs exploding inside CD/DVD drives. In the majority of those cases, the disc was already ...